Sail Maine is a community sailing center in downtown Portland. Baker TR Championship ROTATIONS Rotations, PDF BOATS Whitecap “turbo” 420’s. Sails are mostly normal size. Sails will be BRAND new. VENUE can be choppy/very choppy with traffic/reverberation from harbor, current swirls, etc.. This is often not predictable wave chop, but random stuff. Current is, well […]
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Read more "Protected: Practice Tuesday 5-14-2019"BOTH coach boats need to be hauled and cleaned after practice. Ideally we can hose them down. Store SeaHunt in back lot, and the RIB near our shed in the parking lot. We hope to be able to return all our boats to the parking lot today. The 505 needs to be properly put away, […]
Read more "Practice Thursday 5-9-2019"Practice Focus: UPWIND -likely do legs of races today along with a few start-to-finish races to allow you to put finishing touches on your teamwork and communication. Staying in phase while aggressively seeking clear air. Everyone says its great to “be in phase”. What on earth does that actually mean? Well, be on the lifted/long […]
Read more "Practice Wednesday 5-8-2019"Sail Sand Point is an old seaplane hangar on the northern part of Lake Washington. The lake is locked, so there should be no discernible current. The water temperature is in the high 50’s. This is generally a light, maybe medium-air venue with afternoon thermals (from the city) which would be a northerly. Southerlies are […]
Read more "Sail Sand Point Venue"USMMA KINGS POINT 2017 MASSA Mallory Qualifier Sailors: Connor Bayless ’17 Stephanie Houck ‘17 Aidan Morgan ‘17 Caroline McNeil ‘18 Camille White ‘18 Blair Reilly ‘18 Caroline Bayless ‘19 Abby Tindall ‘19 Event.: The United States Merchant Marine Academy (300 Steamboat Rd, Kings Point, NY 11024). It was about a five to six-hour drive […]
Read more "Kings Point (USMMA)"Fleet Racing Focus final boat handling work on speed / weight trim / sail trim Final beat strategies. Staying Ahead on the Final Beat, Scott Ikle a few races start to finish This all depends on there being any wind. FJ Grace’s Coach Boat 1 Maddie Hawkins Abby Tindall 2 Mariner Fagan Ryan Wahba 3 […]
Read more "Practice Tuesday 5-7"Light air speed and freedom day, with ISSA boathandling rules/restrictions recognition. FOCUS: 1) Clear Air in Light Air, and 2) Legal, smooth, boat-handling and sail trim (and weight trim) work on smooth boat handling, taking advantage of flat water to gain distance upwind with slow initial turns in your tacks. downwind, again, you have to […]
Read more "Practice Monday 5-6-2019"-Haul coach boat at end of day -starting line practice. Work on setup/defending spot, spot poaching, and generally hyper-thoughtful starts. Observe, concentrate, and execute. -5o5 team de-rig at 1715. FJ Grace’s Coach Boat 1 Maddie Hawkins Abby Tindall 2 Mariner Fagan Raam Fox Addi Harris 3 Teddy Cromwell Hayden Lamb Andrea Riefkohl 4 Patrick Dolan […]
Read more "Practice Friday 5-3"Practice today: We will keep an eye on the weather and hope to get a little sailing in. Need to chat with BCSC Varsity weekend teams. Remind me to do this……… A little TR for the FJ’s, and some 2 on 2 for the 420’s. Fleet race practice start technique against TOP competition. What are […]
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Severn School Sailing Team 